April 20, 2000

Regina Gober died March 10 at Regional Medical Center in Anniston after a long fight with breast cancer. She was 45.

Mrs. Gober served as director of children’s ministries at Parker Memorial Baptist Church Anniston, where her husband Don in minister of music.

A graduate of Jacksonville State University, Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and East Carolina University,. Mrs. Gober was an accomplished pianist and vocalist. Her ministry with children was one of the great joys of her life.

Along with her husband Don, she is survived by a son, Nathan, 15, and a daughter, Melissa, 9, and her parents Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Rampley of Trion, Ga.

Mrs. Gober is one of an estimated 600 Alabama women and 40,800 women nationwide who will die of breast cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).

The ACS also estimates 2,700 new female cases will occur in Alabama this year, as well as 182,800 new cases in the United States. (TAB)